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Hadith 4925
(regarding His Statement): 'They ask your instruction concerning the women. Say: Allah instructs you
about them ...' (4.127) It is about the female orphan who is under the guardianship of a man with
whom she shares her property and he does not want to marry her and dislikes that someone else
should marry her, lest he should share the property with him, so he prevents her from marrying. So
Allah forbade such a guardian to do so (i.e. to prevent her from marrying).
Sahih al-Bukhari Book 67, Hadith 67
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concerning the Verse: 'Do not prevent them' (2.232) Ma'qil bin Yasar told me that it was revealed in
his connection. He said, "I married my sister to a man and he divorced her, and when her days of 'Idda
(three menstrual periods) were over, the man came again and asked for her hand, but I said to him, 'I
married her to you and made her your bed (your wife) and favored you with her, but you divorced her.
Now you come to ask for her hand again? No, by Allah, she will never go back to you (again)!' That
man was not a bad man and his wife wanted to go back to him. So Allah revealed this Verse: 'Do not
prevent them.' (2.232) So I said, 'Now I will do it (let her go back to him), O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)."So he
married her to him again. Sahih al-Bukhari Book 67, Hadith 66
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While we were sitting in the company of the Prophet (ﷺ) a woman came to him and presented herself (for
marriage) to him. The Prophet (ﷺ) looked at her, lowering his eyes and raising them, but did not give a
reply. One of his companions said, "Marry her to me O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)!" The Prophet (ﷺ) asked (him),
"Have you got anything?" He said, "I have got nothing." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Not even an iron ring?"
He Sa`d, "Not even an iron ring, but I will tear my garment into two halves and give her one half and
keep the other half." The Prophet; said, "No. Do you know some of the Quran (by heart)?" He said,
"Yes." The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Go, I have agreed to marry her to you with what you know of the Quran (as
her Mahr)." Sahih al-Bukhari Book 67, Hadith 68